Nurse killed patient because she could not tell the difference between ‘Huseyin’ and ‘Hussain’

A Filipino nurse who killed a pensioner in a blood transfusion blunder after mixing up his name with another patient is facing jail. Lea Ledesma, 48, gave 76-year-old Ali Huseyin AB-type blood meant for fellow patient Irfan Hussain, 37, who was blood group ‘O’. Doctors ordered the transfusion at the London Heart Hospital in Westmoreland Street, when the pensioner lost blood from his chest drain at 9.30am following a successful heart bypass the day before. Ledesma accidentally jotted down Mr…